From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hebrew: bold face odd when using the monospace font. Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:07:38 +0000 Message-ID: <874m6qxved.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <8737mcqtz6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87h9arxggi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471320381 1140 195.159.176.226 (16 Aug 2016 04:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 04:06:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 06:06:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZVdl-0008R8-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZVdi-0006bM-CG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZVbh-00057W-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZVbc-0007iB-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46523 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZVbc-0007hn-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bY7VI-0002Nx-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:07:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:ED/rH7vrcwVEMCEcowVgUju3pM4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206609 Archived-At: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > That it is your setting of DejaVu Sans Mono that gives you nice > results for Hebrew. Since this font has no Hebrew coverage, any > results for Hebrew, nice or otherwise, come from programs substituting > another font. > […] > So here you are: you get DejaVu Sans, not DejaVu Sans Mono, for Hebrew. Yep but strangely enough for no hebrew I obtain ,---- | position: 36166 of 36174 (100%), column: 0 | character: A (displayed as A) (codepoint 65, #o101, #x41) | preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) | code point in charset: 0x41 | script: latin | syntax: w which means: word | category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman | to input: type "C-x 8 RET 41" or "C-x 8 RET LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A" | buffer code: #x41 | file code: #x41 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) | display: by this font (glyph code) | xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x24) `---- > Why Emacs gives you Linux Biolinum Keyboard O for bold is not clear. > You might need to read about fontsets: > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Fontsets.html#Fontsets thanks > The unicode-fonts library provides a more user-friendly interface for > configuring font fallback, but may slow down Emacs startup > considerably: > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnicodeFonts thanks